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Opinion: By Letting Small Businesses Fail, the State Is Handing Power to Corporate Giants
The world’s biggest businesses will benefit from the coronavirus crisis as they devour the carcasses of their smaller rivals, writes Grace Blakeley. But this is not just the nature of the market, it comes down to who the government chooses to help and who it chooses to abandon.